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| Titre : | Reinventing Citizenship: Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation |
| Auteurs : | Kazuyo Tsuchiya |
| Type de document : | document électronique |
| Editeur : | [S.l.] : Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2014 |
| Résumé : |
In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates about citizenship. At the heart of these disputes stood African Americans and Koreans. *Reinventing Citizenship* offers a comparative study of African American welfare activism in Los Angeles and KoreansÔÇÖ campaigns for welfare rights in Kawasaki. In working-class and poor neighborhoods in both locations, African Americans and Koreans sought not only to be recognized as citizens but also to become legitimate constituting members of communities. Local activists in Los Angeles and Kawasaki ardently challenged the welfare institutions. By creating opposition movements and voicing alternative visions of citizenship, African American leaders, Tsuchiya argues, turned Lyndon B. JohnsonÔÇÖs War on Poverty into a battle for equality. Koreans countered the cityÔÇÖs and the nationÔÇÖs exclusionary policies and asserted their welfare rights. TsuchiyaÔÇÖs work exemplifies transnational antiracist networking, showing how black religious leaders traveled to Japan to meet Christian Korean activists and to provide counsel for their own struggles. *Reinventing Citizenship *reveals how race and citizenship transform as they cross countries and continents. By documenting the interconnected histories of African Americans and Koreans in Japan, Tsuchiya enables us to rethink present ideas of community and belonging. ### Review "This comparative study of community policies related to welfare and community participation is well organized, well writen, and well documented. The narrative moves along, not dwelling too long on one individual or organization, yet it also contains extremely apt quotations from policy makers and activists that vividly conveey their ideas. The attention to gender, female homemaker and male breadwinner, and contestations of that is equally efficient and well conceived, enriching the book. The influence of African Americans and their ideas on contestations over inclusion and welfare policies in Japan is equally compact and relevant." ÔÇöKathleen Uno, Temple University |
